There have been unconfirmed reports posted on the Internet regarding a permanent price cut down to $99 for the aging Sony PlayStation 2 video game console.

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Also, good work Sony. I understand you are interested in luring customers to your soon-to-be-obsolete PS2. Thats all good and swell, but what happens when they want to upgrade and they go out and buy that PS3 with all good intention of playing their PS2 titles, only to realize that you screwed them by removing Backwards Compatibility.

You must be new around here, right? It’s a very commonly known fact that this kind of stuff is sold at these prices across the Atlantic, e.g. if a console is sold at $249 (the Nintendo Wii) in the US, it’s normal to for it to be priced at €249 over here. What 's the price for the PS3? That’s right, it’s 399 Euros over here and 399 dollars over there, right? Same with the Xbox. And the Americans even complain that life is tough, the economy is bad and all that.

So, the fact is that the PS2 has just now dropped from 129 Euros, or something like that, to 99 Euros. The same happened in the US, but in dollars, as is the norm.

Umm…I am not new around here…I’ve been posting on cdfreaks for a while now. Just to let you know. I was telling you what the price is considering the exchange rate. So you are paying more money for your PS2 in Europe than if you were buying it in North America.

If you need more information, look up info on exchange rates, and you can also type in exchange rate converter in google to look up rates for converting Euros to USD. You will see that 99 Eur = 132 USD

Dude, you’re not understanding what I’m saying. It’s been forever like this. If a console costs 100 dollars in the US, it costs 100 Euros over here. Do you understand this? Good.

Of course it’s more expensive if you do the exchange rate conversion. We all know that. But that’s not the point. The point is that it is always like this.

So, when I said that, over here, it was now 99 Euros, I was saying that it, indeed, had dropped in price. The exchange rate equation is irrelevant for the discussion. Which was never if PS2 is cheaper (exchange rate wise) in the US or in the EU.